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Get the App. Get the Map.® - Avenza Maps is a powerful, award-winning offline map viewer with a connected in-app Map Store to find, purchase and download professionally created maps for a wide variety of uses including hiking, outdoor recreation, and traveling.

Our mobile maps don't need the internet to work. Carry maps around like books or music! Maps stored on your device and are always available even when not connected to WiFi or cellular coverage so that you can avoid data roaming charges when outside of your local network.

Going hiking? Find an official park or topographic map and navigate with only GPS (cellular data can be disabled), record your tracks, estimate travel times, and add placemarks and photos to share with others.

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

FEATURES• Locate and show GPS position and compass direction• Record GPS tracks during your activities• Drop placemarks wherever you are and add notes or photos• Measure distances and areas• Overlay search engine results on any map for offline use• Handy map searching tools to find the map you need• Load an unlimited number of maps from the Map Store• Load up to 3 of your own geospatial PDF, GeoPDF®, GeoTIFF and JPG maps at a time• Available in-app subscriptions to unlock the ability to import an unlimited number of your own maps

GET MAPS FROM THE MAP STORE• Hundreds of thousands of free specialty maps available through the Avenza Map Store• You can have an unlimited number of Map Store maps on your device• Camping and hiking use including National Park Service maps and other regions of the world• Topographic use including USGS and Canadian Topographic maps and other regions of the world• Nautical and marine use including NOAA and FAA charts for North America and other regions of the world• Maps for tourists, transit, travel, special events, historic and much more

UNLOCK MAP IMPORT LIMIT SUBSCRIPTION• Import an unlimited number of your own maps including geospatial PDF, GeoPDF®, and GeoTIFF• Recreational use only• Ideal for enthusiasts who import maps for traveling, hunting, fishing, hiking, navigation and more

AVENZA MAPS PRO SUBSCRIPTION• Import an unlimited number of your own maps including geospatial PDF, GeoPDF®, and GeoTIFF• Empower your organization with the full features of Avenza Maps Pro• Required for commercial, academic, government, and professional use• Import and export Esri® shapefiles (points and lines only, areas coming soon)• Manage multiple users with subscription management system• Receive priority technical support

MAP PUBLISHERSThe Avenza Maps platform is an all-encompassing solution for the use, distribution and sale of digital versions of paper maps to mobile devices. We look to partner with map publishers who bring excellent design, diversity and value-added content to our platform. Contact us for more information.

AFFILIATESJoin our affiliate program and earn passive income. Our program is free to join, easy to set up and requires minimal technical knowledge. Have access to our growing inventory of more than 500,000 maps and we will provide special links to our maps that you can share on your website, blog or social networks. You'll earn a commission for each map sale you make.

REQUIREMENTS• For best results, use Android 4.4 or higher. Avenza Maps 2.0 requires Android 4.4 or higher.• Devices with less than 1 GB RAM may encounter problems with processing maps and other memory related issues• Avenza Maps may not be supported on some Android devices with an Intel processor

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Gemma Bauld

Was great Doesn't work. This used to be awesome, however in the last couple of months it now doesn't work at all. Now add in the cost and there is no point in having it. Unfortunately even Avenza can't figure out the problem, and are unable to diagnose until it kind of works 🤔. But it doesn't, so it will never get fixed?

Shame, pointless money grab now. Used to work well, only started using it a little when hiking, new "update" charges $130 or $30 a year, even to use personal maps... makes this a pointless money grab app. Very displeased.

Justin McCarley

Not worth paying for Why should I be charged to create, upload, and use my own maps. Ignorant money grab. Don't use this app.

David Farrar

$130/year?!?!?! Just found out about the new "update" with no additional features. I am a member of a volunteer SAR team that NEVER charges. Didn't think we fit under the "Commercial" Pro policy. With Avenza's recent clarification I looked into a Pro subscription (we do not have access into any other orgs. subscription). Thousands of dollars?!?!? Per year?!?! That is more than our annual budget. We have dozens of regional parks and other specialized maps that we have put a lot of work (not $) into. We use this program to save lives, but there is no way we can afford this yearly cost. Deleting this program and looking into the many alternatives.

Wolfgang Grunberg

Obfuscated and consumer unfriendly pay scales Avenza does not explain and compare the new pay scales and introduced arbitrary and very expensive pay walls without much added value. The custom map limit will really screw with local wildand firefighters in the comming season.

Andrew Randall

Now a total ripoff Can't even access the maps that I had purchased before they hiked the prices! $40p.y is far to expensive

User reviews

Gemma Bauld December 7, 2016

Was great Doesn't work. This used to be awesome, however in the last couple of months it now doesn't work at all. Now add in the cost and there is no point in having it. Unfortunately even Avenza can't figure out the problem, and are unable to diagnose until it kind of works 🤔. But it doesn't, so it will never get fixed?

Shame, pointless money grab now. Used to work well, only started using it a little when hiking, new "update" charges $130 or $30 a year, even to use personal maps... makes this a pointless money grab app. Very displeased.

$130/year?!?!?! Just found out about the new "update" with no additional features. I am a member of a volunteer SAR team that NEVER charges. Didn't think we fit under the "Commercial" Pro policy. With Avenza's recent clarification I looked into a Pro subscription (we do not have access into any other orgs. subscription). Thousands of dollars?!?!? Per year?!?! That is more than our annual budget. We have dozens of regional parks and other specialized maps that we have put a lot of work (not $) into. We use this program to save lives, but there is no way we can afford this yearly cost. Deleting this program and looking into the many alternatives.

Obfuscated and consumer unfriendly pay scales Avenza does not explain and compare the new pay scales and introduced arbitrary and very expensive pay walls without much added value. The custom map limit will really screw with local wildand firefighters in the comming season.

You really screwed up a great app! I hope you at least consider one or more intermediate levels of this program. I wouldn't mind paying a few dollars to be able to store 15 or 20 maps, but $130 per year???!! That's nuts for most people. I feel like a chump for updating. It was really a downgrade! I'm a volunteer at a wildlife refuge and I was promoting your app up until now.

The $129.99 price is for professional use. There is also a $29.99 version for recreational use that unlocks map import.

November 26, 2016

I used to recommend this app to everyone. Not anymore. I now have to pay a minimum of $29.99 per year to load my own maps to my own device? Pure greed. I would have been willing to pay something reasonable for the app. Blocking USNG/MGRS to the commoners, too. Wow. USNG has been the US federal civilian standard since 2001 but now we have to pay to use it. 3 map limit? Lots of people do lots of stuff with maps where four quads, which aren't in your map store, come together. I sure wish I new about this change before I made the update. I agree that the US Forest Service needs to stop endorsing this product to their forest visitors.

Thanks for the feedback. USNG/MGRS is returning to the app in the latest update.

November 16, 2016

Greedy Your canned replies just don't do it. Don't you get it? Can't you see that people are genuinely disappointed and pissed? You loored us in and now you want a lot of money. Totally unreasonable! Keep it or rethink your greedy strategy and do an update fast. Let me know how many users you'll loose... Nice going.

No longer useful Was one of my favorite apps, used it all the time both for my job with the Forest Service and for personal use. The latest update now requires me to pay $130/year if I want more than three FS quads

If you are a Forest Service employee, you are licensed for Pro already. The Forest Service has been fully licensed for some time. Contact your regional rep or sales@avenza.com for more details.

James Adney November 14, 2016

Adding an artificial 3 map limit is unjustifiable. This effectively prevents people from using government funded maps unless they are tech savvy enough to block the app upgrade. I regret purchasing maps from your store in the past and I hope the Forest Service and other government agencies stop working with Avenza.

The limit is for 3 at a time so they can remove unused maps and import up to 3 as they need them. Since government funded maps provide you with the original file, the map can be stored elsewhere and imported whenever needed.

Gregory J Smith November 28, 2016

Was terrific and I used it a lot. NO MORE. $30 A YEAR just to import my own hand made maps is ridiculous. An artificial limit of 3 is way too small. Needs at least to be 20 for personal use. I think Avenza would have been smarter to just charge a one off price (say $10) and I (and I'm sure most users) would have been happy to pay. After all I'm happy to pay a reasonable cost for good functions. But I'm not standing up for this money grab.

Possibly OK but with the total cost of maps I was going to purchase being hundreds of dollars, I of course want to preview them to see what I'm buying. Every preview was of a cover page and not the map, so I have NO IDEA WHAT'S ON THE MAP. Easily could show ACTUAL MAP at low resolution...or full map for a few minutes or something. Subscription model is ruining this world....

Thanks for the feedback about the preview. We'll look into improving them in a future release.

Christina Reuter Mitchell November 17, 2016

Great Map App Ruined by Dev Greed The New & Improved Avenza costs $130 yearly. For periodic use as a recreational hiker, Avenza is now not cost effective. I AM INSTALLING. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO UNINSTALL TOO...and thus boycott the Developer's unbridled greed!

Was great Now a just BS app!!! I have read the comments below from Avenza what dont they seem to grasp is that people have more then 3 maps on there phones that they cycle through frequently. I know I used have 20 different maps on my phone for different areas of forestry that I go through daily. Now I have to delete maps so I can have 3 then delete 1 to get a different 1 is BS. Way to go Avenza. Also Avenza just so you know not every forester or wild firefighter work in the government so they will not share there paid version.

Use of the app professionally has always been subject to a licensing fee as stipulated in the EULA. There are numerous organizations that are not in government that have arranged for a Pro subscription. Additionally, some government agencies have subscriptions that they do share with sub-contracted organizations. You may already have access to Pro.

yudi armanda November 24, 2016

The upgrade is a TRAP!!! how can you make this? Its too expensive for us, valounteer for wildlife. In a whole my eksperience, I recomended this app. But not in any time in the future. It is a junk!! Bad app..too ekspensive

Professional use has always required licensing as stipulated in the EULA. There are options for volunteer and not for profit organizations for subscriptions. Please contact sales@avenza.com.

Charles Perko December 2, 2016

Best Option [NOT ANYMORE] This used to be a five star app. Then they started trying to charge me thirty bucks A YEAR just to be allowed to manage my own map collection. Thankfully, I backup my APKs before every update just in case a developer tries to screw a loyal user. Going back to the old version, and staying there. Can no longer in good conscience recommend at all.

There is also a $29.99 version that allows unlimited map imports for recreational users. You can also purchase for multiple devices from our website.

Heath Smith November 18, 2016

Ruined We used this program all the time. Today I got an unusual error that I couldn't load a map from my phone because without purchasing the professional version. I see in the comments that there is a recreational version but since I have all the maps on my phone I will now have to unimport them and then reload only three, which I will have to constantly change making this program less useful and frustrating. I'm heading back to BackCountry Navigator.

Ruined *Was* an excellent map tool. Latest update only allows 3 map imports. USFS needs to stop plugging this app until it's actually free again. Additionally, it won't even allow me to sign up for an account to even try to use the pay service. Website is FUBAR. Fail.

There is no limit to the maps you can load through the Map Store. There is a limit of three maps imported from external sources at one time. Meaning that you can remove them and add more as you need to, but only up to three.

November 22, 2016

Disappointed I used to love this app but the new cost for unlimited maps is ridiculous. Other apps with more features do not cost nearly as much (GPS tracking etc). As a software developer myself I absolutely get the need to make money. I would have easily paid $10 but $30 (and annual, not one time? Come on guys...) is a bit much to ask, especially since the maps I use are all public domain. I will unfortunately be uninstalling and looking for a more reasonably priced solution.

No longer useful I'm a wildland firefighter and we use this app to keep maps of our fires and fire protection areas easily on hand. The new update only allows 3 maps to be stored without paying. That means that myself and all other firefighters that used to rely on this app to find and suppress wildfires can no longer load all the maps we need. Eastern montana alone has 27 maps. Tennessee has 20 just for the southern half of the forest. I am sadly displeased with this new update. Please bring back unlimited free map load.

Use of the app professionally has always been subject to a licensing fee as stipulated in the EULA. In fact, forest firefighters are some of our most loyal customers. There are licensing options available for your organization. Contact sales@avenza.com.

Graham Place November 16, 2016

Lost this customer As a wildland firefighter, I used this app daily. With the new update the app has become useless to me. I'll be looking else where for offline maps. Don't waste your time.

I tried all the top GPS apps for my Tracfone Moto E and this is the absolute, hands down best one. I bought a Forest Service Visitor map and used it while hiking and ATV'ing in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. The app worked flawlessly. While the Moto E is a budget phone, this app was silky smooth in all operations. With the brightness all the way up, the maps were readable outdoors, but a little shade was needed. Tip: GPS works in airplane mode which saves your battery! Update: There seems to be confusion after the recent update. The 3 map limitation is only for your own, personal imported maps. It is not for the ones you obtain thru the app store - you can have many of those as you want on your device!

The $129.99 price is for professional use. You can purchase for multiple devices from our website. There are no restrictions on sharing data created in the app. Support for SHP has been added as well. There is also a $29.99 version for recreational use that unlocks map import.

elsievers November 29, 2016

This use to be one of the best mapping apps out there. Unfortunately due to someone wanting a new mega yacht or something, it is now just mediocre. I understand that they want to make more money, but to only allow 3 maps to be loaded at a time is ridiculous.

Limiting how many maps I can have on the app is an "update"? Not to count that the app insists I can have this feature back for the low low cost of $130 a year. I don't understand why I should have to pay a yearly premium to upload my own maps to my own device.

Do not install! Was a great app, but since I was stupid enough to update to the latest version I now have to pay an exorbitant annual subscription ($39 AU) for the privilege of being able to load more than three of my own maps at a time! I'd be happy to pay a one off fee to support Avenza for what is otherwise a great app, but there is no way I'm going to be gouged annually. Hopefully Avenza wakes up to itself and moves away from this greedy subscription service. Until then, STAY AWAY if you want to use your own maps.

Not liking the new version. Haven't run into the maps issue but given I am often working on sites that have more than that for clarity and resolution I dislike what I am hearing. KML seems to take longer to build too.

Was one of my favourite apps... I loved this app but adding the new limit of 3 external maps absolutely killed this app. I will still use it for the maps already have loaded but will be discontinuing future use. Would reconsider if more reasonable pricing was implemented.

I used this on an older device at it was amazing! I got a new phone and was extremely disappointed in the loss of features with the update!! Boo Avenza and shame on you for taking away what we all used and loved with the "update."